My dad is a lawyer. My girlfriend and my brother are lawyers as well. You can imagine the pressure I faced as I prepared to take my bar exam. Failing was not an option.

My BAR/BRI course started a week after my graduation from law school. This course is a bit hairy, cramming everything relating to law in a corny and formal way.

In the state of California, the bar can cover topics including property issues, civil procedure, criminal law, constitutional law, community property, wills and estates, torts, and contracts. It goes without saying that anyone wanting to take the BAR/BRI needs to know quite a bit of information!

Example: You got to take constitutional law. But instead of being psyched about learning something new, you have to be in the loop about the rushed lecture they give you. And be easy and nod at all the main points of the lecture.

Like when choosing your iffy law school classes, you have to be hands-on with bar exams. Preparation may go haywire, but if you are hooked to conceptual framework, you might be saved.

California has these funky divorce rules, the Community Property. So taking Taxes bar means, muscle up to these fresh conceptual frameworks. They are different to the extent of being a mess.

However, if you do not take divorce law while you are in California law school, you are not even going to have a framework to understand it.

I would suggest that you start to prepare for the Bar at the end of your second year. You may look into courses designed to prepare you for the test, or you may decide to prepare in some other way. The key is to be prepared when you decide to take the test.

Most people tend to walk into the BAR/BRI with a giddy, over-confident sort of attitude. Of course, you are excited because you just graduated! It’s ok to be excited about that, but don’t let your excitement get the best of you! Don’t become so confident that you become careless and don’t do well on the test!

Failing bar is lame way to loose 100k. No kook should be in a position to make such a kink. Just think about it. Don’t become know-it-all and become so high that the thing that matters to you, fades away.

The author, Patrick Levitt, practices corporate law at a prestigious corporate law firm located in New York City. He currently works as a litigation associate and is in his 4th year. To read more of Patrick’s stories, visit Get Into Corporate Law!

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